Unit Exam Review: IB Geo Paper 1

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Unit Exam Review IB Geo Paper 1

• IB Geography I

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Test Day Specifics

• Paper 1 is worth 40 of your total IB Grade.
• Paper 1 is 1 ½ hours long
• Paper 1 is divided into Section A and B.
• Section A worth 45/60 marks
• Section B worth 15/60 marks

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Section A Tips

• answer ALL short-answer questions about the four
  core themes
• Populations in Transition
• Disparities in Wealth and Development
• Patterns in Environmental Quality and
  Sustainability
• Patterns in Resource Consumption
• 45 marks, approximately 17 minutes per section
• Use the space they give you and only that space

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Section B Tips

• Students are required to answer one extended
  response question from a choice of three.

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Section B Tips

• The questions require a broad treatment of the
  content and may integrate multiple topics across
  the core
• Populations in Transition
• Disparities in Wealth and Development
• Patterns in Environmental Quality and
  Sustainability
• Patterns in Resource Consumption

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Section B Tips

• The questions require knowledge and
  understanding, application and analysis, and
  synthesis and evaluation.
• The command terms used in each question indicate
  the depth required.
• Review all Case Studies
• Approx. 23 minutes

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Study Guide The CoreContent
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Populations in Transition

• Population Change
• Responses to High and Low Fertility
• Migration
• Gender and Change

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Population Change

• Population Momentum
• Development Diamonds
• Birth Rate/Death Rate (Crude)
• Infant Mortality/Child Mortality
• Population Pyramids
• Population Projections

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Responses to High and Low Fertility

• Dependency Ratio
• Ageing Population v. youthful population
• Population Policies (anti-natalist v.
  pro-natalist)

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Migration

• Voluntary v. Forced Migration
• Push v. Pull Factors
• Internal Migration v. International Migration
• Lees Model
• Refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced
  people
• Remittances
• Impacts of Migration

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Gender and Change

• Gender and Social Norms
• Gender Gap Index
• Relationship between Status and Fertility
• Gender and Education, Employment, Culture/Status,
  Income, Land Tenure, Health/ Life Expectancy,
  Migration

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Disparities in Wealth and Development

• Measurements of Disparities
• Origins of Disparities
• Disparities and Change
• Reducing Disparities

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Measurements of Disparities

• GDP, GNI, GNP, PPP
• Development Gap
• Human Development Index/Human Development Report
• MEDC/LEDC/NIC
• Disparities in Income, Education Nutrition,
  Marginalization

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Origins of Disparities

• Gini Coefficient/Lorenz Curves
• Cumulative Causation
• Core/Periphery
• Slums and the Urbanization of Poverty
• Formal/Informal Sectors
• Factors that Result in Disparities Ethnicity,
  income, education, land ownership

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Disparities and Change

• Theories used to Explain Global Development Gap
• Patterns and Trends in Life Expectancy,
  Education, and Income
• MDGs

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Reducing Disparities

• FDI
• NGOs
• Free Trade/Fair Trade (Access to markets)
• Effectiveness of aid
• Top Down/Bottom Up
• Remittances, Microcredit, Debt Relief

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Patterns in Environmental Quality and
Sustainability

• Atmosphere and Change
• Soil and Change
• Water and Change
• Biodiversity
• Sustainability

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Atmosphere and Change

• Review all vocabulary
• Climate Change/Global Warming
• Greenhouse Effect
• Tipping Point
• Causes/Consequences of climate change
• Greenhouse Gases
• Positive Feedback

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Soil and Change

• Review all vocabulary
• Soil Degradation
• Causes, Consequences, Patterns of Soil
  Degradation
• Management Strategies
• Sustainable Agriculture

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Water and Change

• Review all vocabulary
• Water stress v. Water scarcity
• Potable Water
• Patterns and Trends in Water use
• Environmental v. Human Factors affecting water
  scarcity
• Physical v. Economic scarcity
• Conservation measures
• Water footprint
• Virtual Water
• Factors that affect access to safe drinking water
• Quantity v. Quality debate

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Biodiversity

• Review all vocabulary
• Biodiversity hotspots
• Tropical rainforests
• Ecological/Cultural/Economic Value
• Changes in the Amazon Logging, Mining, etc.

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Sustainability

• Environmental Sustainability
• Business-as-usual
• Green Technology
• ESI
• Ecotoursim/Destination
• Footprint
• Environmental Impact
• Assessment
• Pro-poor strategies

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Patterns in Resource Consumption

• Patterns of Resource Consumption
• Changing Patterns of Energy Consumption
• Conservation Strategies

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Patterns of Resource Consumption

• Ecological Footprint
• Biocapacity
• Population Resource Debate (Neo v. Anti
  Malthusian)
• 3 Agricultural Worlds
• Green Revolution (pros and cons)

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Changing Patterns of Energy Consumption

• Patterns and Trends in Oil Production and
  Consumption (MEDC/NIC/LEDC)
• Peak Oil
• Geopolitics and Oil

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Conservation Strategies

• Changing Importance of Other Energy Sources
  (Renewables)
• Recycling, Reusing, Reducing
• Quotas, Subsidies, Rationing
• Overfishing
• Landfill
• Product Stewardship
• Substitution